Language
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| 1939369132 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 1939369133 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. | 1 | |
| 1939369134 | Esperanto | An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages. | 2 | |
| 1939369135 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. | 3 | |
| 1939369136 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) | 4 | |
| 1939369137 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. | 5 | |
| 1939369138 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. | 6 | |
| 1939369139 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance Branch of the Indo-European language family. | 7 | |
| 1939369140 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. | 8 | |
| 1939369141 | Language Group | A Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. | 9 | |
| 1939369142 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 10 | |
| 1939398820 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. | 11 | |
| 1939398821 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese | 12 | |
| 1939369143 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 13 | |
| 1939369144 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 14 | |
| 1939369145 | Monolingualism | The condition of being able to speak only a single language | 15 | |
| 1939369146 | Bilingualism | The ability to speak two languages | 16 | |
| 1939369147 | Multilingualism | The ability to speak multiple languages | 17 | |
| 1939369148 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 18 | |
| 1939369149 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language. | 19 | |
| 1939369150 | Pidgin | A Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. | 20 | |
| 1939369151 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 21 | |
| 1939369152 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place | 22 | |
| 1939369153 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. | 23 | |
| 1939369154 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language | 24 |
